Apparel-corset.



UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL Kors, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSE T.

tion therewith of a tape or strip of fabric connected thereto and supporting devices connected therewith. Corset steels tapering throughout from the narrower upper end to the wide and maximum width lower end are those to which my invention particularly refers. These steels widest at their lower ends are also most unyielding at said ends, whereas it is particularly desirable in certain styles that they should bend and more closely conform to the figure of the wearer. .Where hose supporters are employed in corsets using such steels and are connected to the iieXible lower end of the corset below the Wide unyielding lower ends of such steels, their drawing of this fabric out-of-line with the steels draws the fabric sharply over the lower endv of the steel where the same very soon cuts through the fabric,-all of which it is the object of my invention to overcome.

In carrying out my invention I provide each tapering corset steel with means for attachment thereto of a suspending device such as a tape and I prefer in so doing to make one or more slots in and through each corset steel near the wide lower end which in their length are placed transversely of the length of the steel. A tape is passed through the hole or holes with the parts thereof overlying the outer surface of the steel and eX- tending below the same to the lower edge of the corset. The steel and tape are covered and inclosed in and by the fabric body of the corset and the ends of the tape preferably diverge slightly and the strap of the hose supporter is sewed to the said tape and to and between the fabric body, and as the tape is less yielding than the fabric body of the ,corset the pull upon the hose supporter is transferred through the tape to the steel, causing the lower end to bend and conform more closely to the figure of the wearer, and at the same time tending to throw the narrow top Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 1, 1908.

Patented April 2o, 1909.

Serial No. 446,386.

part out or away from the gure creating room for expanding the chest and bustkk section.

In the drawing7 Figure 1 is an elevation of the lower fronty portion of the corset showing the parts of the halves of a corset and: hose supporters and in dotted' lines the steels and other parts constituting my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on about the dotted line x, x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation on the same scale of the lower end of one steel alone. Fig. 4 is an elevation and Fig. 5 a vertical section of a modification of my invention,

and Fig. 6 represents in miniature a pair of corset steels prepared according to my invention.

a, and b represent the fabric parts or body portions of the halves of a corset as shown in Figs. l and 2.

c, d, are the front steels, e one of the fastening devices, and j' g the hose supporters. The steels are each provided with one or more slots formed transversely of the line of the corset steel and located near the lower wide end.

In Figs. l, 2 and 3 I have shown the slots h and t as parallel with one another and near the lower wide rounded end of the steel. I do not in any respect limit myself to the length of these slots nor to the distance apart that they are placed, nor to the employment of one slot or two slots or more.

7c and Z' represent tapes in Figs. l and 2. These tapes are preferably of strong iirm webbing and advantageously passed from the back of the steel through both of the slots to the front of the steel and depending from the lower end of the steel over the outer face thereof. As shown in Figs. ly and 2, these tapes diverge slightly and they with the steels are incased or inclosed by the fabric body of the corset; they extend to the lower edge of the corset and' they with the lower edge are secured in any desired or well known manner to the upper ends of the hose supporters by firm lines of sewing. It is sometimes customary to secure the elastic fabric of the hose supporter to the outer surface of tapes and the elastic fabric of the hose supporters are connected firmly together by sewing. These tapes are preferably of such character that they are substantially unyielding and do not elongate in use, while the fabric body of the corset more or less stretches and elongates, consequently when in use and when the hose supporters are connected, the ull will be directly upon the steels throug the tapes and the hose supporters. It has heretofore been usual to connect these hose supporters directly to the lower ends of the fabric body of the corset below the lower ends of the steels. The lower ends of the steels because of their width are quite rigid and iin-yielding and they do not bend to conform to the figure, consequently when the fabric of the corset below the steels was pulled u on by the hose supporters there was a sharp ine of demarcation at the lower ends of the steels where the outer garments rubbing upon the fabric of the corset with the end of the steel underneath had a tendency to cut through the fabric, and the lack of conformity of the steel to the ligure has been sometimes disadvantageously apparent.

With the device of my invention the pull being upon the tapes and the ta es being in direct connection with the stee s have the tendency of pulling in the lower part of the steels and causing` the same to bend and of course in bending to conform to the outline of the figure which is a great advantage besides transferring the tension to the steels direct instead of to the fabric body of the corset, and the eXtra thickness produced by the tapes over the outer surface and lower edge of the steels protects the fabric body of the corset, preventing the same cutting through.

In Figs. 4 and 5, illustrating a form of my invention, I have only shown one slot h1 in the steel c1 through which the doubled tape k1 passes. The loo of tape at the back of the steel receives a lbcking bar 2 which may be of any desired material or shape so long as it is wider than the slot, making it impossible for the tape to pull through the slot.

The description hereinbefore given with reference to Figs. l to 3 inclusive, so far as the structure and function and operation of the ta es with the hose supporters are concerner applies with equal force to the form of my invention shown in Figs. l and 5.

In Fig. 6 I have shown by way of illustration a pair of tapering corset steels in miniature of the form which I prefer to employ and which are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom and taper gradually from one end to the other.

The primary and fundamental points of my invention are the attachment to the lower wide ends of the corset steels-that gradually taper throughout and are widest at their lower ends and narrowest at their upper ends-a device in turn connected to a garment supporter or supporters for direct pull or tension from the corset steel, to bend the steel and to make it conform to the figure and have a supporting function in connection therewith, and a yielding tendency at the upper and limber end,-consequently I do not limit my invention to the slots made in the steels or to any special or particular manner of connecting the supporter devices directly to the steels.

I claim as my invention:

l. In an ap arel corset, a corset steel having a slot in t e same near the lower end, a tape connected to said steel only at said slot and overlying the outer surface of the steel, and a hose supporter connected to the free ends of the tape.

2. In an apparel corset, a corset steel narrow at the upper end and wide at the lower end and gradually tapering throughout and having a slot in the same near the lower wide end, a tape connected to said steel only at said slot and overlying the outer surface of the steel at its wide lower' end, and a hose supporter connected thereto.

3. In an ap arel corset, a corset steel having a slot in t e same near the lower end, a tape having parts doubled upon one another and connected to said steel only at said slot and the-doubled parts overlying the outer surface of the steel, and a hose supporter connected to the free ends of said tape at its upper end.

4. In an ap arel corset, a corset steel having two paral el slots in the same near the lower wide end laced transversely to the length of the steef a tape doubled upon itself with the parts thereof assing through said slots from the back to t e front of the steel and overlying the face and lower end of the steel7 and a hose supporter connected to the lower free ends of said tape` 5. In an apparel corset and in combination with a pair of tapering steels narrowest at their upper ends and widest at their lower ends and gradually tapering throughout their length, each having two slots in their wide lower ends, of ta es passing through said slots from the bac to the front of the steels and superimposed over the outer face and lower ends of the steels and extending below the steels to the lower edge of the corset, and hose supporters connected at their upper ends to the lower free ends of the tapes whereby the pull and tension produced by the hose su porters are directly communicated througli the tapes to the steels, substantially as set forth.

6. In an a parel corset, a pair of front steels gradua ly tapered from the narrow upper end to the lower wide end and each having an aperture therein near the lower the gure and provide an abdominal support end, hose supporter' devices located below the therefor. 10 steels, and means extending in line with and Signed by Ine this twenty-first day of July connecting the latter directly to the lower 1908.

wide ends of said steels at said apertures, DANIEL KOPS. whereby the supporting function is eHected Witnesses: and the steels because of the direct tension, GEO. T. PINGKNEY,

caused to bend and more closely conform to l BERTHA M. ALLEN. 

